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Please do not see it while drinking drink. The PET bottle caps it and put it in a bag, and please carry it. Please see the thing which the chief does not have after finishing drinking.
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I still haven’t figured out what this one means…
It means you should laugh very hard! Things like this make me scared to try and go to another country and speak their language. Could you imagine if we made a similar foul of something we were trying to say when speaking face to face with someone in their language. We’d sound like we were insane!
It looks like the same sign might be to the left of it, probably in the native language.
Unlike the western people, people of the east show great appreciation for your efforts to speak their language and act very supportive on your mistakes. They try their best to understand what you might be refferring and never show sarcastic reactions.
If there is no such thing in eastern countries as “nihonglish”, “yinguolish” etc. sites, where native speakers find examples of hilarious attempts to translate things into eastern languages, I’ll be very disappointed. It’s only fair that they get a giggle as well.
I dont know if i completely agree, I have been to many other countries and in China people made fun of us to our faces and laughed even at us saying hello or thank you with an american accent
it reminds me of my trip to the US when i first started learning English…
I found a receptionist at the hotel and asked for a “cub” … her face was a poem…
then I realised I was messing up with the pronunciation and said “cab” and she called a taxi for me
we still remember that and laugh about it
going to a country without having basic knowledge of the language can be so much fun!
Would have been tough riding on the back of a baby bear.
miiiiii
We saw this last February 12th. I wonder if it will bring back Psychedelic & Palsyboy who were around at the time. Haven’t heard from The Chief for a while, either. Maybe he found the thing he didn’t have.
It happen just like you say, Smart Boy. He find it and he go to place he can’t go.
Okay, I’m pretty sure that PET is referring to Polyethylene terephthalate, which is what most soft drink bottles are made out of.
I think the first part might be saying, “If you’re going to drink something here, keep it in a bag like the winos do.”
The second part made my head a splode.
I was never a chief, but the category of things that I did not have after finishing drinking is entirely too long to detail in this space, particularly since prominent among them was, often, a memory of the preceding evening.
I…ummm… *brain explodes*
Some bottle caps have prizes.
Don’t check if you won the prize until after you have paid for the bottle and left the store.
Oops, if you have to drink it first, that means that the winning information is at the bottom of the bottle, under the drink, not on the cap.
..it rubs the lotion on its skin..
It puts the cap on its bottle, or else it gets the thing again.
Of course, the first sentence could be the Jeopardy answer to, “What are pink elephants?”
Mayyybeee…the chief doesn’t have a trash can?
I may not be a chief, but as your princess I grant you permission to see the thing I don’t have even before you finish drinking.
I don’t drink, therefore it isn’t?
Maybe they left off the A in PETA… and chief maybe wore fur or ran a puppy factory or hell, ate meat of some sort. The fine, level headed, calm and rational PETA members then took a sharp implement and removed something from the chief, put it in a bottle, and they’re doing some sort of “Punk’d” thing to some poor fool to make a point (and these are the instructions posted for the hosts to refer to during filming).
“Here, drink this! Now, lookee over here, see the chief? He can now sing soprano. Or more accurately, castrato….”
Now, see, the sign makes perfect sense. Or I missed one of my meds this morning.
That’s a no-brainer. After finishing drinking, the chief doesn’t have a drink anymore!
If chief always drinks until drink all gone, chief need rehab pow-wow, real quick.
why repeat?
Some of us miss a few now and then (duty calls, and/or doody calls), and there are always new folks lurking about, so I see no harm in rehashing a few.
Thanks, JohnB. I’m in that ‘new folks’ category and always appreciate it when people take a minute to explain something. I also understand that it gets old.
Please do not see it while drinking drink. The PET bottle caps it and put it in a bag, and please carry it. Please see the thing which the chief does not have after finishing drinking.
I think it must be a sign at some sight or museum, and they ask you not to bring any open bottles in or drink whilst viewing the display, which apparently is of the thing which the chief does not have…
How can I see the thing that the chief does *not* have? Is this some sort of Zen?
What is the sight of something, not possessed?
What is the sound of someone, half undressed?
What is the smell of pork badly, expressed?
What is the taste of happy hour, recessed?
1) window shopping
2) teeth chattering with cold
3) rancid bacon
4) beer and chips during lunchtime.
… funny, I don’t feel particularly enlightened…
Before enlightenment, we cut wood and carry water. After enlightenment, we cut wood and carry water. And go window shopping half undressed, smelling of bad pork, beer, and chips. You always knew seeking enlightenment would make you crazy, didn’t you?
Upon rereading, I’m suspecting it means: do not drink in here. You can close the bottle and carry it in a bag but you can’t drink in here. Obviously written by Maxwell Smart.
Any takers?
If Maxwell Smart had written it, there would be an instruction to eighty-six the bottle.
I told you not to tell me that!
I think we all agree on the not drinking and parading around your plastic bottles part.
But what about the last part?
Unless the chief is a recovering alcoholic, that doesn’t make sense at all.
Tuesday!
I think I know what it is trying to say. It’s some sort of a buffet line, and you are not supposed to fill your plate while holding an open drink. If some food item is not ready (“chef does not have”), please finish your drink away from the line and come back.
No, Alex, we’re not up to Final Jeopardy yet!
My God, JohnB, you are hilarious! Final Jeopardy *snickers and laughs*
The Thing That Should not Be?
Huh? So what is it that I shouldn’t see while drinking? If the chief doesn’t have it, how can I see it? Sounds like something they cut out of the Matrix movie. Makes almost as much sense as “there is no spoon”
Haha i took a picture of this too! It’s in kyoto, japan right?
Wait, is chief supposed to mean top? In that case, the thing the chief doesn’t have would be the bottle cap, right?
“Just close your eyes and swallow”
THATS WHAT I SAID
wth do they mean when they say the *thing* the chief don’t have after drinking?? nm…. i dont wanna know.